
Easements Critical for Internet Access
Easements play a critical role in getting internet access to customers, particularly in rural areas. In fact, if it wasn’t for easements, it would be extremely difficult – and very expensive – to bring life-affirming services to people who want and need them. Water, natural gas, electricity and yes telecommunications, all need easements to connect homes or businesses.

Partner Up with a Podcast
From finances and mysteries to business strategies and health, the topics available via podcasts offer education and entertainment.

Rural Philip woman finds niche working remote for USDA team
Tanya McIlravy from Philip has found a career telecommuting with the USDA and works with a team of 10 people around the country. She is appreciative of her high-speed, secure internet and landline phone. Telecommuting has offered Tanya the benefits of advancing her career and gaining flexibility with her schedule.

10 Holiday Apps to Help Ease & Enjoy the Season
As the holidays fast approach, it can be challenging to get everything done while also trying to enjoy the season. There’s good news. There are mobile apps to help you accomplish everything from shopping to wrapping to visiting Santa. Or as they say – “There’s an app for that!”

Rugged custom-built trailers gain fame on TV, in movies
Rugged custom-built trailers gain fame on TV, in movies South Dakota-based trailer manufacturer; TRAIL-EZE, has been delivering on its “Trailers for any job” tagline for 59 years. The company specializes in custom-built equipment-hauling trailers, and with payload...

Electronics & Ergonomics: 4 tips to set yourself up for success
Minimize pain with a few simple adjustments to ensure you are viewing your electronics in an ergonomically appropriate way.

Give ‘Smart’ Gifts for the Holidays
Your household may already be equipped with these everyday tech essentials. But you can raise the bar for your Christmas gift giving with several ultra-cool (and useful) tech-enhanced goodies.

Broadband, Internet, & Wi-Fi … Oh My!
Golden West provides its members with a broadband connection to the internet. The cooperative also offers and supports a router for convenient Wi-Fi access for the growing number of devices online today. But what does that all mean?

Medal of Honor Hero Calls Hartford Home
Michael Fitzmaurice is South Dakota’s lone surviving Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. It is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force. Fitzmaurice was honored for his personal bravery and self-sacrifice serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

Recreating a Native Home Where the Buffalo Roam
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has reintroduced 800-plus head of buffalo on 28,000 acres of grasslands as part of its Wolakota Regenerative Buffalo Range & Wildlife Sanctuary. It’s the largest Native American owned and managed bison herd in North America today.